There’s a reason why I haven’t been posting for awhile: I’m delighted to share with you news that my book, How to be Yourself: 300 Inspirational Quotes, A Guide to Living an Authentic Life has been released on Amazon in both print and ebook formats.

Do you want to be “special”? Are you driven to do “something significant” with your life, failing which you may feel your life is worthless? Or do you content yourself with the value of living an “ordinary” life? Perhaps neither of these ambitions expresses your authenticity.

If you’re lucky enough to have a job nowadays, quite likely you’re unlucky enough to be expected to work overtime at the cost of not having a personal life. The presumption of business to treat you as an economic object, not a person, simply reflects how our upside-down society dehumanizes the person.

What can we really know with certainty about the mysteries of existence? Yet somewhere on the planet today, like too many days before us, because of his or her religious convictions an adherent of one god will bludgeon to death an adherent of another god. But let’s put this religious certainty into perspective.

We commonly understand personal authenticity to mean being oneself. While this is so, we can understand what it means to be one’s Self in different ways. The practice of presence points to what may be a deeper experience of authenticity.

The human condition is the context which frames an understanding of the import of presence. In brief, you and I are asleep – metaphorically – to our deeper nature from which authenticity originates.

Everyday a myriad of stimuli drown our awareness: innumerable thoughts, feelings, sensations, outer events and interactions. One thought, feeling, or sensation leads by association to another and another and another ad infinitum keeping the hamster wheel of inner imagination and self-talk turning ceaselessly.